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{{quote|''A melody of angry growls''
''A counterpoint of painful howls''
''A symphony of death, ''oh my!''''
''That's my lullaby!''|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}yJGqxf86cZs#t{{=}}46s "My Lullaby"], '''Zira''''s [[Villain Song]] from the ''[[The Lion King]] 2'' }}
Some people find happiness in hearing a peaceful stream, or the laughter of children, or maybe a beautiful symphony. Others... not so much. Sometimes you'll find people who very openly find joy, solace, or at least, familiarity, in the sounds of suffering and violence.
Expect this trope to crop up if there's a [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torture scene]], particularly if someone's being [[Interrogated for Nothing]]. If the victim is [[The Stoic]], [[The Spock]], or [[Defiant to
Usually a sign that the person you're dealing with is a [[Psycho for Hire]], a [[Complete Monster]], or at the very least a sadist (it's not exactly a heroic quality). For characters who actually feed off of feelings of suffering, see [[Emotion Eater]]. Related to [[Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]'''s version of [[Ax Crazy|Sailor Mars]], at a theme park: "[[No Indoor Voice|I LOVE THE SCREAMS OF CHILDREN]]!"
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** When {{spoiler|he is consumed by Pride and trapped in a typhoon of anguished souls, he is able to maintain his sense of self solely because of this trope}}. That's right, Kimblee's practice of this trope was a [[Chekhov's Gun]].
** Also somewhat implied with [[Femme Fatal|Lust]].
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* In ''[[
** But then it gets inverted when Polnareff (with a lot of Kakyion's help) manages to severely injure him by countering his stand ability. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"Hey J. Geil! You are the one with a nice scream."]]
* The [[Complete Monster|Snake Baron]] from ''[[Berserk]]'' says he prefers the sounds of humans screaming under a fiery apocalypse rather than material goods.
** In contrast to the [[Complete Monster]] apostles who are this trope, there is a much more sympathetic one present in {{spoiler|Farnese}}. In her case, her [[A Date
* When {{spoiler|Death the Kid}} was being tortured in ''[[Soul Eater]]'', [[Face Heel Turn]] {{spoiler|Justin Law took out his perpetual [[Headphones Equal Isolation|earphones]]}} so that he could listen. Even the other villain raised an eyebrow.
** Giriko of ''[[Soul Eater]]''.
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* Sadi-Chan from ''[[One Piece]]'', having the sadomasochism theme.
* ''[[Hellsing]]'' has several examples:
** In the 7th [[OVA]], Zorin [[Mind Rape
** In the manga, the Major has half a chapter devoted to this trope. To wit: "And it is superb when the enemy prisoner screams in time with the shriek escaping from the schmeisser I hold as I mow him down." And that's only the SANE portion of the speech.
** When fighting Tublacan, Alucard tells him to "squeal like a pig."
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'': Because of their horrific past where they were forced to rape and kill other children for their tormenter's amusement, [[Creepy Twins]] Hansel and Gretel grew to love killing in general, which includes "the sound of screaming".
* In ''[[Super Dreadnought Girl 4946]]'', Makoto Tobita sister Kuumi fights and kills demons soley because she loves to hear their screams. However she comments that she [[Brother-Sister Incest|prefers her brother screams the most]].
* Hiei from [[Yu Yu Hakusho]]. Has been savagely killing everything around him that breathed since he could walk, and describes their cries of pain to have been like a child's music box to his ears. [[Take Our Word for It|No wonder we never got any scenes of Hiei as a child]].
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* "Scream for me!" is practically [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Sabretooth]]'s catchphrase.
** Parodied in one of [[Deadpool]] comics, when Creed was about to do something terrible to Wade, before he started:
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'''Deadpool''': Scream? Well, if you insist... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! AAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAH!
'''Sabretooth''': Enough Wilson.
'''Deadpool''': No, wait! Now I'll do it like a little girl! EEEEEK! EEEEEK! EEEEK!
'''Sabretooth''': I said enough! }}
* The entire reason [[Batman
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* As noted under "film", ''That Yellow Bastard'' of ''[[Sin City]]'' likes to hear his underage victims scream, to the point he was actually impotent unless he heard said screams.
== Film (Animated) ==
* A rare heroic example, [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Jack Skellington]], the King of Halloween, laments that he has "grown so weary of the sound of screams," indicating that he used to enjoy them. The screams he's referring to are those of fright from Halloween pranks, and not torture.
* As the page quote shows, [[Villain Song|"My Lullaby"]] in ''[[The Lion King]] 2'' is almost entirely this.
* The ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' monsters don't just like to hear screams; they need them as a source of energy.
== Film (Live Action) ==
* In the first ''[[Harry Potter]]'' movie, Filch mentions how they used to hang up disobedient students by their thumbs for punishment in [[Ye Goode Olde Days|the good old days]].
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** In the fourth movie Voldemort puts his finger to Harry's forehead which causes him pain and he screams in agony. Voldemort watches this with an excited look on his face and screams along with him, almost like he's urging him to continue screaming.
* ''[[
* At one point in the movie ''[[Virtuosity]]'' the villain SID 6.7 uses a roomful of hostages as a source of a variety of screams, which he then remixes into a symphony of fear for his enjoyment.
* Roark Junior, the title character of the ''[[Sin City]]'' story "That Yellow Bastard," is a [[Complete Monster]] of a [[Serial Killer]] who rapes and murders little girls and who [[Loves to Hear Them Scream]]. As Nancy Callahan reveals {{spoiler|during his [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] of her eight years after his first attempt on her is foiled by Hartigan, the screams of his victims are the only way that Junior can get turned on, or even get it up}}.
* In ''[[The Dirty Dozen]]'', [[Complete Monster|Maggot]] demands a woman do this before he knifes her, nearly warning their targets.
* In ''[[Batman Begins]]'', Dr. Jonathan Crane is implied to enjoy {{spoiler|using his fear toxin to force people into panic attacks}}. Just consider what he said about his patients to Falcone after {{spoiler|spraying him with said fear toxin}}.
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** In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', the main reason [[The Joker]] loves using knives is so he can "savor all of the little emotions", which you miss out on when using a gun.
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== Literature ==
* The Black Wind, Machin Shin, of ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', is made of this. Literally; it's composed only of the very vocal desire to hear people suffering.
* Cazalla, the commander of the dread fortress of Matanceros in [[Michael Crichton|Michael Crichton's]] posthumously published ''[
* One of [
* Ray used to be baffled by this in [[Christopher Brookmyre|Christopher Brookmyre's]]'' [[A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away]]''. Then his wife had a baby, and he understood how people got desensitised.
* In one of the ''[[Magic:
* DomDaniel in ''[[
* The [[The Elric Saga|Melnibonean court]] has a choir of surgically-altered human slaves who can only scream in one particular note each.
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* Some ''[[Super Sentai]]'' villains. [[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger|Bandora]], for example, says she loves to hear children crying, and the villains of ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'' use suffering to raise the water level of the Sanzu River where they live.
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', this is why [[Complete Monster|Cartagia]] finds torturing [[The Stoic|G'Kar]] so frustrating.
* In the ''[[
* The Barrel Girl Gang of ''[[Dexter]]'', especially [[Big Bad|Jordan Chase]] of Season 5, seemed to do what ever they could to their victims to get them to scream. To the point self proclaimed [[Complete Monster]] Dexter was [[Even Evil Has Standards|sickened by their actions]].
* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Willow and Faith;]] as villains, explicitly share their love of this. They're also two of the most psychotic characters in the series.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''Warhammer40000'', the Chaos Space Marine Night Lords Legion is fond of this. However, the [[Evil Counterpart|Dark]] [[The Fair Folk|Eldar]] of ''[[Warhammer
* ''[[Magic:
** Liliana Vess as well, according to another edition of the same card.
== Theatre ==
* And the Broadway version of ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' gives [[Big Bad|Ursula]] the second [[Villain Song]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEugSRttip0&feature=related "I Want the Good Times Back"], notable for the massive [[Lyrical Dissonance]] and one of the most brazen examples of [[Foe Yay]] ever, which is mix of Ursula explaining her plan and this trope:
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''I want to hear their screams!''
''[[For the Evulz|I want the special rush you get from crushing hopes and dreams!]]'' }}
** And, unlike [[The Lion King|Zira]], who just implies this in her song, Ursula then goes on and directly says that "It's an aphrodisiac." [[Disney]] villainesses are surprisingly kinky.
* [[Voltaire (
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== Toys ==
* [[Communications Officer| Soundwave]] from the original ''[[Transformers]]''; the quote on his action figure package says, "Cries and screams are music to my ears."
== Video Games ==
* In [[
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** Quite creepy considering that many claim [[
* [[Final Fantasy VI|Kefka]].
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* [[Suikoden II|Luca Blight]] claims to love "hearing those pigs squeal," [[Moral Event Horizon|meaning the innocent bystanders that he tends to slaughter while they're begging for their lives]].
* Papa Cesar in ''[[House of the Dead]]: Overkill'':
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* In ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'', Jane has the 'Sadist' ability, which kicks in randomly to make her deal more damage. When it activates, she says "Hmm, Scream for me." She's also given the moniker "Sadistic Jane".
* One of the level ending quotes of ''[[Dungeon Keeper]]'':
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* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' has this trope in SPADES. One of the reasons she gives in the game for killing angels is that they aren't annoying when they are dying.
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* Sniper Wolf explains that gunfire, sirens and screams were her lullabies when giving her death speech to Solid Snake in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', although in this case, they may have literally been her lullabies considering the fact that she was born and raised in the battlefield around Kurdistan/Iraq.
** In Sniper Wolf's case those sounds were beyond her control and something she did not enjoy. A straighter example could be found in the character of Colonel Volgin from Metal Gear Solid 3 who loves torturing his victims. During World War II he and the Russian units under his command were ordered to execute thousands of Polish citizens and soldiers, he personally beat many such victims to death with his fists and took off their blindfolds so that he could enjoy the look of terror in their eyes as they died. During the game's story he subjects the young Big Boss, then known as Snake, to [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] where he beats him within an inch of his life and electrocutes him, and when Snake pisses himself because he can't hold it in through all the pain Volgin reacts to it by saying, "Yes! Now that's what I wanna see!" Ocelot, a man who ruthlessly tortured Snake with electricity during Shadow Moses which means this is saying something, watching this is disgusted at first, but slowly begins to view torture as an art form after the torture session ends.
* I-No of ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' gleefully admits that she enjoys anyone else's screaming, as shown in her winquote against Bridget.
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* Though it doesn't come up within the ''[[
* Leanne, the initial protagonist of ''[[Theresia]]'', associates screaming with [[Torture Technician|her beloved mother]].
* Dr. Weil in ''[[Mega Man Zero]] 3'' upon leaving Crea and Prea to deal with Zero, says "I've got some pig squeals to enjoy.", in reference to the humans who are currently at the mercy of the Dark Elf-brainwashed, currently insane Reploids.
* Several demons have lines like this in the ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army|Raidou]] [[Raidou Kuzunoha VS King Abaddon|Kuzunoha]]'' games.
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== Webcomics ==
* [[Playing
* ''[[Goblins]]'' plays this straight with [[Torture Technician|Dellyn]] [[Fantastic Racism|Goblinslayer]]. On the other hand, [[Knight Templar|Kore]] narrowly avoids this one. Sure, he [[Cold-Blooded Torture|tortures]] Chief just to make him scream, but there's a practical reason: to lure the other goblins out of hiding so he can kill them too.
== Web Original ==
* [[
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNZzJELbFRI This] gag song falls into this eventually, after pretending it's about sunshine and happiness.
* ''[[The Gungan Council]]'' has Karma thoroughly enjoying torture, with Kaelin ''getting off'' on it.
* [[
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[My Life
* [[Transformers Generation 1|Soundwave's]] quote in his original toy bio was "Cries and screams are music to my ears."
* Bane demands that [[Batman]] scream his name for him after he has him dead to rights in ''[[Batman:
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* In the [[Mickey Mouse]] cartoon "Runaway Brain", the [[Mad Scientist]] Dr. Frankenollie tortures Mickey through electrocution and he remarks "I love it when they squeal!".
* A rather horrifying example from ''[[
** And in "Other Voices Part 1" when Optimus is being scanned/zapped by the aliens:
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